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Studying abroad is an important thing that every college student should try at least once. Studying away helps you gain life skills that you can not experience away from the normal classroom setting. It helps you grow as an individual, as well as a student. The time you spend overseas teaches you so much moreContinue reading “Final blog:Berlin Forever”

In my opinion Socially East and West Germany was not successful in reunifying their cities. But, constitutionally they were successful. Putting up the gate, to divide the East and West was a horrible decision. It divided friends, family, u-bann lines, lakes and rivers. In the East, you could not go to certain stations because theyContinue reading “Day 15: Reunification”

The German ascetic does not look that different to me today, but in the past East and West Germany have different ascetics. The German ascetic is full of high rise buildings and art that expressed the time period it was designed. East Germany in particular reminds me a lot of New York City, because ofContinue reading “Day 14: East vs West Berlin”

How did the East German security system function? What were its key characteristics? How successful was it at keeping East German citizens in line? The Soviet Union controlled the German prisoners in different ways. They controlled the prisoners mainly with physiological torture. They did not want to physically torture them, because that would not beContinue reading “Day 13: Stasi Prison”

Germany was described as a pariah country, because the world blamed them for the war. People hated Germany because they started World War 1 and in World War 2, they killed many people, and in some cases invaded other countries.  Ten years after the war West Germany was back on its feet because they wereContinue reading “Day 12: West Berlin”

The Germans went about World War 2 like it did not happen and they did not talk about anything that had to do with the war. They decided that they were going to start off with a clean slate and start anew. World War 2 was a horrible tragedy especially on Germany’s part. They wereContinue reading “Day 11: East & West Berlin”

The most important that that I learned about Sachsenhausen was that nobody really knew that it was going on. Even in Germany some people thought that it was a myth. The main reasons that people were not aware of Sachsenhausen was because of the censorship and really strict state press. At the time there wereContinue reading “Day 9: Sachsenhausen”

Some of the facets of the Third Reich that the Berliners chose to remember or commemorate were many of the buildings and memorials. When we walked through Nazi Berlin, I found it interesting how the Berliners chose to keep up some of the original Nazi buildings, and for some of the buildings they chose toContinue reading “Day 8, Terror of the Nazi’s”

The Olympic stadium was my favorite thing that we have seen so far on this trip. I thought the inside of the stadium was modern looking, because of all the technology and all of the different sporting events. Although the outside of the building was not really modern looking, because of how the building isContinue reading “Day 7, Olympic Stadium”

Jewish life in Berlin was extremely difficult. Jews at the time were greatly oppressed and blamed for everything that went wrong during times of downturns. People destroyed or stole their property. They were beaten up and killed.  Often these kinds of things happened around Easter because the Germans had their facts mixed up and theyContinue reading “Day 6, Jewish Life”